Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

An ice house is a building used to store ice all year round.  Ice was transported from lakes, ponds and rivers in winter by wheelbarrows or ...

John Robert Lucas was born in 1754. After his father Robert Lucas died in 1774, he took over his beer and cider works in Bristol and his sh...

Monk’s Steps or St Kew’s Steps , as they are also known, run from Woodspring Avenue near the top of the northern slope of Worlebury Hill in ...

Some of Britain's most famous poets have connections to Somerset: Siegfried Sassoon and T.S. Eliot are buried in Somerset.  Samuel ...

Montacute House (owned by the National Trust) has some particularly fine examples of wibbly-wobbly or "cloud" hedges .  The ones ...

Conygar Tower is a folly located on Conygar Hill above the village of Dunster.  It was commissioned by Henry Fownes Luttrell (1723-1780), ...